My almost unconscious desire for God is more effective than my voicing beautiful words to heaven, seeking.... -- Blinding flash of the obvious from 1995
The thing about a BFO, when I read it sometime later, is how true it is and, incredibly, how rarely I remember it.
That's why it is helpful to learn what "the God of our understanding" really is. A single God of our own understanding stops...or slows down at any rate...our conflicting wants, wishes, desires and disappointments.
I have come to believe that all desire is nothing more nor less than a search for God. It may look to our mind's eye like a million bucks or a hot fudge sundae, but, at root, it is God. I'm a believer that that is why all desire is good...when we change our mind about the object of our desire.
After a whole lot of praying and flailing and quitting and starting over (a.k.a., self discipline), we learn, finally, that God's will is more desirable than our will no matter how good, true and pretty ours sounds to us. Because in the end, if we stay the course, we will find the momentary trauma we were praying over to begin with was for our benefit.
Only our mind is changed. Upgraded as it were.
You meant it for ill, but God meant it for good. -- Exodus 45:5
Thank you.
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